64 bit linux on Intel T9600

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Jamon
Camisso<jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> But I'm sure that all IA-64 has caused anyone is headache, heartache, a hole
> in their wallet, and no small amount of confusion when it comes to
> x86_64/amd64. The question comes up a few times a day in various distros'
> irc channels.

I think this isn't even *remotely* the important heartache that fell from IA-64.

The *important* heartaches relate to the effective "deaths" of all the
other 64 bit architectures, and, related, the UNIX vendors.

- HP stopped updating PA-RISC, throwing their support for ongoing
hardware enhancement directly into the "IA-64 pit"

- Alpha and MIPS are fairly much curiosities

- The only remaining 64 bit architectures that marginally remain are ...

- PowerPC, which seems to be getting more mainframe-specific over time
- SPARC, where it is unclear what Oracle will do with it

All of the above got *severely* "FUDded" by Gartner Group noises to
the effect that "IA-64 will replace *everything!!!" back in the late
'90s, and essentially nobody was prepared to commit anything to the
expectation that any of the above would survive the voyage of the
Itanic.
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